How do I know if my child is gifted?
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Your child may be academically gifted if he or she:
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Does being gifted mean being great at everything?
In a word, no.
Children with high academic potential are frequently asynchronous in their development, meaning that they may be far beyond their age-mates in some academic areas, but not so advanced in others. This can be confusing for a young child and their families. GATE is adept at recognizing asynchronous academic and social development.
Children with high academic potential tend to thrive with their cognitive peers—friends who can match and complement their ability to think and speak at a level beyond their chronological age. It makes sense: If your 2nd grader thinks like a 5th grader, then his or her conversations with typical 2nd graders can be frustrating or confusing for all concerned.
Giftedness is far from being everything. We understand that social-emotional skills and qualities such as perseverance, determination, resilience, self-regulation, and open-mindedness are what make people successful in life. GATE creates an environment that requires kids to reach beyond their comfort zones and risk failure. Inquiry-based learning teaches our students that you can try and fail, and then you can stretch beyond that failure and learn more by redesigning the experiment, redrawing a floor plan or making your poem pithier. Overcoming failures is essential to learning and success. It develops crucial life skills, character and grit as described by Paul Tough in his book How Children Succeed, a great read that's making the rounds in today's educational circles.
The SENG Foundation—an acronym for “Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted”—has many resources available to help parents understand the challenges that academically gifted children and their families can face. Please visit our Resources page for more links.
Children with high academic potential are frequently asynchronous in their development, meaning that they may be far beyond their age-mates in some academic areas, but not so advanced in others. This can be confusing for a young child and their families. GATE is adept at recognizing asynchronous academic and social development.
Children with high academic potential tend to thrive with their cognitive peers—friends who can match and complement their ability to think and speak at a level beyond their chronological age. It makes sense: If your 2nd grader thinks like a 5th grader, then his or her conversations with typical 2nd graders can be frustrating or confusing for all concerned.
Giftedness is far from being everything. We understand that social-emotional skills and qualities such as perseverance, determination, resilience, self-regulation, and open-mindedness are what make people successful in life. GATE creates an environment that requires kids to reach beyond their comfort zones and risk failure. Inquiry-based learning teaches our students that you can try and fail, and then you can stretch beyond that failure and learn more by redesigning the experiment, redrawing a floor plan or making your poem pithier. Overcoming failures is essential to learning and success. It develops crucial life skills, character and grit as described by Paul Tough in his book How Children Succeed, a great read that's making the rounds in today's educational circles.
The SENG Foundation—an acronym for “Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted”—has many resources available to help parents understand the challenges that academically gifted children and their families can face. Please visit our Resources page for more links.
